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Alvand Technologies
Alvand Technologies specializes in high-speed, low-power, and ultra small die size ADC, DAC, and AFE IPs. Alvand's solutions target markets such as wireless, wireline communication, ultrasound, mobile TV, and advanced semiconductor inspection equipment.
Board of Directors
Dave Bell
Dave Bell is the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director at Intersil. Prior to this role, Mr. Bell served as Intersil's President and Chief Operating Officer. He joined Intersil in April of 2007 after spending 12 years with Linear Technology Corporation ("LTC"), most recently, from June 2003 to January 2007, as its President. Prior to becoming President of LTC, from January 2002 to June 2003, Mr. Bell served as LTC's Vice President and General Manager of Power Products and, from February 1999 to January 2002, as LTC's General Manager of Power Products. From June 1994 to January 1999, he held the position of LTC's Manager of Strategic Product Development. Mr. Bell has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rick Crowley
Rick Crowley has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and, in addition to his role as director at Open-Silicon, Mr. Crowley serves as the vice president, finance and chief financial officer of Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT), a highly successful, publically traded semiconductor company. Prior to joining IDT, Mr. Crowley was Vice President and CFO of Micrel, Inc. for nine years and held positions with Vantis Corporation as its vice president, chief financial officer and with National Semiconductor Corporation as vice president, corporate controller. Mr. Crowley holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Management in Accounting and Finance from Northwestern University.
Christine King
Christine King became Chairperson of the Open-Silicon Board of Directors in 2009. Ms. King served as president and chief executive officer of AMI Semiconductor for seven years. In addition to taking the company public in 2003, Ms. King led AMIS through six acquisitions as well as played a key role in the ON Semiconductor acquisition of AMIS in March 2008 in a stock-for-stock transaction with an estimated equity value of $613 million. Prior to joining AMIS, Ms. King was vice president of Semiconductor Products for IBM's Microelectronics Division. Her 23 years of experience at IBM included launching the company's ASIC business in 1993 and growing it into the number one ASIC business in the world. Ms. King earned her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J.
Nicolas Martin
Nicolas Martin joined Unicorn Investment Bank in 2009 as Managing Director, Strategic M&A. Mr. Martin has extensive international experience and throughout his 20 year career has managed some of the largest and most high profile M&A transactions recorded. Prior to joining Unicorn, Mr. Martin was General Manager, Strategic M&A, at Fortis (based in Brussels and Hong Kong). Mr. Martin began his career with ABN AMRO as a director in the bank's Corporate Finance division. Between 2004 and 2006, Mr. Martin was a Client Industry Executive at EDS (London). He was responsible for the coverage of key French and Belgian financial institutions, driving financial institutions' business development in EMEA South and heading up the global banking and capital markets group's mandate to develop EDS' future-state strategy. Mr. Martin graduated from the University of Geneva with a BA in Business Administration (1984) and holds an MBA from INSEAD (1989).
Dr. Naveed Sherwani
Dr. Naveed Sherwani, president and chief executive officer of Open-Silicon, co-founded the company in 2003 with a vision to bring cost-effectiveness, predictability and reliability to the ASIC market. Prior to founding Open-Silicon, Dr. Sherwani was the founder and general manager of Intel Microelectronics Services, where he led efforts to promote the use of disciplined ASIC methodologies to improve design efficiency and time-to-market. Dr. Sherwani was also a professor at Western Michigan University and is the author of the physical design textbook, Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, which is widely used at major universities around the world. Dr. Sherwani currently serves on the board of directors for the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and on the board of directors of Integration and the Technical Advisory Board for Pyxis Technology. Dr. Sherwani received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Rabih Srour
Rabih Srour is the ICT investments manager at ALNAHLA group. His responsibilities cover a portfolio of Greenfield telecom investments and IT startups worldwide with wide variety of scope covering investments analysis and evaluation, technology, project financing and management. Prior to joining AlNahla, Mr. Srour held technical, sales and business development managerial positions in France's 2nd telecom services provider, Neuf Cegetel. Mr. Srour brings with him his passion for venture initiatives as well as his international and entrepreneurial experiences in different industries. Mr. Srour holds an MBA from the Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland, MS in IT and networks from ENSTB, Rennes, France and earned his bachelors degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from The Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.